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April's Best Nonfiction Crime Books

A new study of Hitchcock's films, the tragic life of an heiress, and a murder at the mission.

April 16, 2021  By CrimeReads 
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Japan's Most Notorious Kidnapping Is Still Unsolved

In 1984, the president of the Ezaki Glico confectionary company was kidnapped. 65 hours later, he would manage to escape. But that was only the beginning of the story...

April 14, 2021  By Ferdison Cayetano
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How Gilded Age Corruption Produced the Biggest, Maddest Gold Rush in History

America was on edge, inequity was bringing about class warfare. And then there was news of gold in Alaska.

April 14, 2021  By Brian Castner
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9 True Crime Podcasts You Should Be Listening to Now

A shooter in Malibu, a missing woman in Montana, and a lineup of new podcasts that dive into underreported cases..

April 13, 2021  By Lizzy Steiner
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How the Jazz Age's Most Notorious Gangster Couple Got Ready For a Heist

Meet Tiger Girl and Kid Candy, in the days before a heist.

April 12, 2021  By Glenn Stout
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The Hidden History of Women and the IRA

"Perhaps we prefer to believe that the girls and women of the IRA and other radical groups were somehow tricked into joining, that they were naïve, that a man was somewhere in the background pulling the strings."

April 8, 2021  By Flynn Berry
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A Former IRA Bank Robber On Writing A Heist Novel Based on a Long-Unsolved Crime

In 1976, Richard O'Rawe was robbing banks for the IRA. A year later, he was in prison. And now, he's put a unique twist on the infamous Northern Bank robbery.

April 6, 2021  By Richard O'Rawe
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Few Films Understand the History of Blackmail and Queer Criminalization Better than Basil Dearden’s Victim

This classic noir, starring icon Dirk Bogarde, uses the conventions of melodrama and detective cinema to explore a persisting crime: the extortion of queer men

April 1, 2021  By Victoria Wiet
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Stranger Than Fiction: Bigamy, Jealousy, and Foul Play from the Annals of True Crime

The real-life bigamists whose wild stories inspired a new thriller.

March 31, 2021  By Shelly Ellis
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Welcome to Extinction City: Inside The Lawless Zones That Provide Safe Harbor for International Animal Traffickers

"How animals are trafficked is only one of the best-kept secrets of the international criminal underworld."

March 30, 2021  By Will Staples
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